Boom!
A heaven-shaking explosion thundered from deep underground. The formation patterns throughout the pitch-black space spun frantically, and countless chains condensed from pure dark-gold order law burst out of the earth. Their surfaces bore the killing runes unique to Supreme One's era-the physical manifestation of the Epoch Artifact's formation patterns.
The chains shot into the air, ignoring Zhou Xuan and heading straight for A Gu, who hung unconscious above.
The Divine Lord intended to strip away the immaculate origin, and the Epoch Artifact was the butcher's blade in his hand.
Zhou Xuan watched the chains howl toward them, his gaze cold and fierce.
There was no dodging them, and meeting them head-on would play right into his enemy's hands. The Divine Lord had spent ten thousand years binding the Wilds' earth veins to the Divine Court's origin source. A direct clash would only wear Zhou Xuan down until he died.
Zhou Xuan made his decision in an instant.
Instead of retreating, he stepped forward and spread the fingers of his right hand, abruptly withdrawing the power of nothingness covering A Gu.
Ji Chen's eyes widened. The damaged Compass screeched in his palm.
Zhou Xuan lowered his defenses to the bare minimum while openly releasing the auras of the three great origin sources within him. Streams of dark-gold, pitch-black, and emerald light erupted from his body and surged toward the vaulted ceiling.
He was stealing the prize from under his enemy's nose.
The reserves of a three-colored dao fruit were far more enticing than an immaculate dao body that had yet to fully form.
The order chains in midair abruptly stopped. Zhou Xuan's origin source auras forcibly disrupted the formation's underlying logic, and dozens of the thickest golden chains immediately changed direction, tearing through the air.
Thwip! Thwip! Thwip!
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